I want to indtroduce you Izzy's Revenge, a 2D HD platformer based on a steampunk environment. I'm making it using plain Java2D. Yes, yes I know most of you recommends not to use it, but I take it as a personal challenge .

Hi! while the artists are reworking Izzy's animations and designing the first level. I've been working on a trigger system. We want to add several features via buttons and invisible triggers like objects movement, lighting effects or monster spawning. I 'm working on some type of trigger that allows any combination of such events:

Thanks!! I personally agree with you! The artist wanted to speed up the final part, but she has to add at least one extra frame.About the final position, good point, maybe we have to thing about it a little bit more.

P.S. Beheading is also being considered, I'm figuring out how to implement this:

Hi all! Today I want to show you some artwork of our level artist. The first level of the game is Izzy's house, wich is will be used for introducing the game history and gameplay.

It was quite hard to decide the art style, specially if we should do a pure 2D (side view) game or add some perspective to the levels. At the end we decided to choose the second option, although it forced us to do some modifications in the game engine.

I just finished a simple way of doing hot air or water distortion effects in Java 2D. It is made with a particle generator, where the particles are portions of the original screen slightly translated and very transparent:

It was quite hard to decide the art style, specially if we should do a pure 2D (side view) game or add some perspective to the levels. At the end we decided to choose the second option, although it forced us to do some modifications in the game engine.

I'm considering this for my own upcoming game, and I just wanted to know how difficult it was to implement. Was it difficult to make the hitboxes for the obstacles?

In my opinion this project is outstanding!! It looks adorable and you seem to be moving into the right direction with it. At least the artworks look fantastic. And the whole technical stuff with the real-time-editor and the effects. And all this in Java2D? I can hardly believe it. Keep up the good work!

Thanks all for your comments! The two artist are quite talented, but they don't work as much as I would like

Jimmt, the problems related with perspective were due the lighting system. I had to remake the shadowing part. Also, I added oval shadows at the bottom of the objects. Also, the builder is still pure 2D and (more or less) tile-based, so we have to fake the perspective.

For example, the floor is divided in two parts, the top part is just part of the background and the bottom part collides with the character:

Anyways, we are just starting to map the levels, I'm sure that new problems will appear!!

About the distortion effect, it is made in a quite easy way. Even java 2D can handle it! It is just a particle generator (origin at the cyan square). The particles are fragments of the background image, with some shift. With a low alpha value they mix very well with the background:

I discovered Spine a few days ago and it looks awesome, it a really professional tool. We have been talking a lot about that: should we draw all the frames or use a skeleton system?. Maria thinks that the movement can appeal more natural by drawing all the frames. Also, she is learning a lot about animation .

To me, the perspective that you have used in drawing the walls does not look right. In the purple picture, it seems that the perspective for the hole in the centre platform and the lowered ceiling above it have been done incorrectly. For the rest of the scene, the perspective lines are drawn back to one point, like in one point perspective, but for these two parts something has gone wrong! You should not be able to see the sides of the walls for the lowered ceiling, and the ends of the floor in the centre platform should be reversed.Just something to consider.

Yes, I agree with you, but realize that if you try to fake 3D perspective with 2D drawings, you will have that problems allways at some point. We inspired ourselvels in games like treasure adventure world or a boy and its blob. They have that type of "bad perspectives", but the final result is fine enough:

The artworks are so ultra nice!! O_O I really love them because of their style. The first one is really cool, but the skintight dress maybe makes her a bit too sexy. *g* I also really like the rooms! The graphics look awesome!

After several months of silence, we are back! Many things happened during this period. Maria and Néstor moved from the north of Spain to Valencia, so the full team is now together. We just set a small office and we spend a few hours everyday in the project.

The detail of Izzy’s animations has been increased. Izzy was too small, all the animations have been redone, and a few ones like ladder climbing and sliding have been added. Finally, the graphic engine has been improved with many bugfixes and some new features like a tween engine.

We decided to rework the whole graphic style. The previous house looked too depressing and we wanted a more cartoonish style.

Also, we wanted to show some of the new designs we've been making, not in-game images but you can see all the new background style we are creating!

From now, you will hear very frequently from us as Izzy’s Revenge just became a serious project for us.Kisses!

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